State police say they received a name a couple of runaway elephant in Westtown on Sunday evening.

Officers shortly traced the wild animal again to Sanctuary for Animals in Westtown, who admitted that Fritha the elephant had escaped after the electrical fence round her enclosure was by accident switched off.

An elephant managed to flee from an upstate New York animal sanctuary on Sunday evening after the electrical fence that stored her penned inside was by accident switched off

Troopers discovered the elephant on Sunday evening wandering round in Westtown, New York

The scene regarded like one thing out of the Vietnam jungle but it surely was in reality upstate New York

‘By no means a uninteresting second,’ New York State Police wrote in a Fb posting together with pictures that confirmed the animal being caught.